Textile Names (Amendment) (No. 3) Order, 2007

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 18,158, 7 ta’ Diçembru, 2007

L.N. 402 of 2007

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Textile Names (Amendment) (No. 3) Order, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 39 of the Product

Safety Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and Communications has,

on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, made the following

regulations>-

The title of this Order is the Textile Names (Amendment) (No. Citation.

3) Order, 2007, and the Order shall be read and construed as one with

the Textile Names Order, 2000, hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 185 of 2000.

order”.

(1) These regulations implement the provisions of>

Commencement and

scope.

a. Directive 2007#3#EC of 2 nd February 2007 amending, for

the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Annexes I

and II to Directive 96#74#EC of the European Parliament and of

the Council on textile names< and

b. Directive 2007#4#EC of 2 nd February 2007 amending, for

the purposes of its adaptation to technical progress, Annex II to

Directive 96#73#EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

on certain methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre

mixtures.

(2) These regulations shall come into force by 2 nd February

2008.

In the First Schedule to the principal order, immediately after Amends the First

Schedule to the

row 45 thereof here shall be added>

principal order.

Elastolefin

Fibre composed of at least 95 % (by mass)

of macromolecules partially cross-linked,

made up from ethylene and at least one other

olefin and which, when stretched to one and

a half times its original length and released,

recovers rapidly and substantially to its

initial length.”.

In the Second Schedule the following entry 46 shall be added>

4. Elastolefin 1.50”.

(1) In the Fifth Schedule, paragraph 1 of Part 1 shall be

substituted as follows>

“1. The methods for the quantitative analysis of certain

binary textile fibre mixtures, including the preparation of test

samples and test specimens, shall be those laid down in Directive

96#73#EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on certain

methods for quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures

(OJ L 32, 3.2.1997, p. 1), as amended by>

(a) Commission Directive 2006#2#EC of 6 January

2006 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical

progress, Annex II to Directive 96#73#EC of the European

Parliament and of the Council on certain methods for

quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures (OJ L 5,

1.2006, p. 10 –13)< and

(b) Commission Directive 2007#4#EC of 2 February

2007 amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical

progress, Annex II to Directive 96#73#EC of the European

Parliament and of the Council on certain methods for

quantitative analysis of binary textile fibre mixtures (OJ L

28, 3.2.2007, p. 14 –18).”.

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